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When the original Guild Wars launched in 2005, no one truly anticipated the impact it would have on the online gaming industry. While not as substantial as World of Warcraft, it stood alone as a remarkable gaming master... Read Full Review

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This is a great expansion. It's a complete new saga for you to play with some additional character types. Levelling up is much quicker than in the original so seasoned players will find they get themselves back up to a... Read Full Review

When Factions was first released, I was quite dissapointed with the PvE subquests and pvpve ( think battlefied conquest mode). After participating in alliance battles and occasionally playing the competetive mission maps... Read Full Review

The game doesn't really cater to solo game play, even though you can hire "henchmen" to help out on quests. They usually tend to die however, very quick. Make sure you ALWAYS have a healer on your team, especially if you... Read Full Review

Guild Wars Factions is not an expansion to Guild Wars aka Guild Wars Prophecies. It is actually a stand alone campaign that you can play without previously owning Guild Wars. If you do already own any Guild Wars campaign... Read Full Review

Guild Wars Factions offers a new continent to play on. In this game there is an Asian theme to it, so the environments look a lot different. You get to pick from 8 classes now, the assassin and ritualist. All the othe... Read Full Review

Guild Wars Factions offers a new continent to play on. In this game there is an Asian theme to it, so the environments look a lot different. You get to pick from 8 classes now, the assassin and ritualist. All the othe... Read Full Review

Although the new classes in this expansion are the worst 2 in the entire game, the added content is a nice update. The main problem with Factions was that the two classes (assassin and ritualist) were both basically s... Read Full Review

What part was I most excited about when I first got Guild Wars Factions? Was it the new characters: assasin and ritulist. Or was it the PvP? New ways to play including Jade Quarry, fort aspenwood, and more! It's a... Read Full Review

Guild wars factions was the first online game i played ... its not a mmo its a online rpg but its just as good if not better than most,there is a quite large map and story mode to play through, that will keep you busy fo... Read Full Review

This is my least favorite of the GuildWars series, but I'd still give it a 9 out of 10 for fun, replayability, multiplayer features, and great story lines. My biggest gripe on it would be the questing structure in and... Read Full Review